OK, the initial costs are actually rather large. But, on the large scale, the costs are lower than physical alternatives, require much less resources to maintain, and have an extremely larger deployment area thanks to the Internet. In short, it may not be exactly zero, but it's very, very, VERY cheap compared with alternatives.
A medium-quality microphone: $100. A good (GNU+)Linux distribution: Almost free if downloaded. A decent computer: Less than $1500. Internet and CDs: Under $20. Using sites like Jamendo, Libre.FM or the Internet Archive to host the songs: Almost free for both sides. Promoting the album: Word-of-mouth is free, ads are really cheap (under $10 per month), and social networking does wonders. All in all, almost anyone can make a successful album with a month's salary. And the cost can be easily recovered (and even multiplied) if those meager costs are crowdfunded beforehand!
If the name Pirate Party rubs them the wrong way, why don't they use an alternate name? The Communist Party did it all the time. What about, let's say, the Kopimi Party?
Fine, more music free to download! But still, there is no word on whether this album will be free to share and remix. Could someone tell me whether Palmer intends to embrace copyleft or not?
What about CCMixter? It's pretty much exactly what he talks about: someone uploads the song (with or without stems), someone else remixes it, and the remix links back to the original stems. It's awesome and I've used it more than once.
And that's why I try to read works by authors dead before January 1st, 1912 (since the longest copyright term in Earth is life+100 years - better safe than sorry). Or else, works by authors that *continually* use CC-BY-SA or "higher".
If I only knew how to speak Polish, the first thing I'd do would be to translate the books and host them in Wikimedia Commons, then adapt them to my country, then print some and convince some teachers to use it. All thanks to the CC-BY license.
As a matter of fact, I offered to translate Your Face Is A Saxophone to Spanish. The subs are ready and the dubs (yes, the dubs!) are in casting phase. If this series weren't free to translate, who knows whether someone would have tried to subtitle it, let alone dub it.
The problem is that the printable kit is itself nonfree with its noncommercial restriction. I may almost bet the restriction was imposed to prevent the big businesses it's crossing over to raze the project with their sue cannons, but still I consider both sides to be in the same category.
Now that the band is boycotting its usual distribution ways, someone with good knowledge should convince them to switch their music to CC-BY-SA or better.
Carlos Solís a.k.a. ArkBlitz (in the rest of the I (profile), 24 Dec 2011 @ 11:37am
Re: Remix?
Deist, actually. He believed in the concept of a superior entity, it's just that he just thought that religions had a wrong conception of it. Thus his culling of supernatural details off the Bible.
Carlos Solís a.k.a. ArkBlitz (in the rest of the I (profile), 7 Dec 2011 @ 2:44pm
Is common sense dead?
Is common sense dead?
Well, taking into account that:
- Killing Michael Jackson has a lighter prison punishment than singing one of his songs in a video without forking $100000 to the RIAA
- The US government can (and will) arrest political dissidents indefinitely without trial, legally
- Bailouts are being given to banks but not to householders
- Excluding any person from any activity for any reason (even if it's common sense to imply that said person has a convincing reason not to take part from said activity) is slowly being redefined as discrimination
... yes, the common sense has long died in the US. Perhaps they can import some from - oh, so it's dead overseas too?
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Re: This.
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Re: Re: Approaches zero
On the post: The Warehousing And Delivery Of Digital Goods? Nearly Free, Pretty Easy, Mostly Trivial
Re:
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What about Kopimi Party?
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Copyleft or it didn't happen
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What about CCMixter?
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Better safe than sorry
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If I only knew Polish...
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Fact: I wrote about a similar topic yesterday
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Fact: I offered to translate YFIAS to Spanish
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Re: Re: FUCK?
On the post: Free 3D-Printable Kit To Connect Different Toy Construction Sets Released -- But Partially Blocked Due To Patents
Non-free, I'll pass
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Best moment to give them the Copyleft Talk
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Well this explains the Black March
And still some ask why are some people organizing the Black March.
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Re: Re: But still...
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But still...
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Re: Remix?
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Is common sense dead?
Well, taking into account that:
- Killing Michael Jackson has a lighter prison punishment than singing one of his songs in a video without forking $100000 to the RIAA
- The US government can (and will) arrest political dissidents indefinitely without trial, legally
- Bailouts are being given to banks but not to householders
- Excluding any person from any activity for any reason (even if it's common sense to imply that said person has a convincing reason not to take part from said activity) is slowly being redefined as discrimination
... yes, the common sense has long died in the US. Perhaps they can import some from - oh, so it's dead overseas too?
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Re: The Progression
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